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If you can get to see this brilliant, funny, heartbreaking play by Writing Squad Team member Emma Adams, then make your way to @bradford2025 bradford2025.co.uk/event/otherhoo…

Chatting to Squad grad & Wakefield Museums Snr Curator Steph Webb re possible Squad collabs. God wasn’t in Creative Cafe today but nice to feel the presence of characters from my online novella for @wakefieldlitfest still trapped in my story or a decade older? at wakelost dot com

New music vid from out from Dilettante ‘The Stuff Dreams are Made Of’ youtu.be/groQn7ZIakk?si…

If you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe, make sure you catch Sadie Pearson's 'Rodney Black. Who Cares? It’s Working' @Gildedballoon 18-25th August. In the comedy world, where controversy is king, when does the joke stop being funny? buff.ly/C1nfOEg

Setting up the next set of Squad/Poetry Business Digital Residencies you see just what a tremendous resource it’s become. 25 Squad poets over 80 essays, interviews, reviews, prompts and flights of fancy. Check out buff.ly/jjn204t

Just been to this excellent one person show/musical by @thewritingsquad recent recruit Eli Yim - moving, funny, pulls no mental health punches if you’re near Buxton tomorrow afternoon catch their last performance writingsquad.com/event/the-easy… @buxtonfringe

Mack Sproates has been made a New Writing North Emerging Creative Associate 2025! Mack is one of ten early career writers and artists who are receiving bursaries, individual mentoring, training and networking over six months 🤩 buff.ly/d6pL5ib

Some fabulous Squad reviewers have been working with the Poetry Book Society recently: Tayiba Sulaiman, Gregory Kearns, Kayleigh Jayshree, Jasmine Gray, Beth Davies and Jenny Danes! You can check out their work in the Summer & Autumn bulletins 🗞️ buff.ly/G1m8gp1

This morning’s treasure ⁦@thewritingsquad⁩ hq!

Fantastic to watch the live stream of ⁦@Malikabooker⁩ dancing to receive her Doctorate ⁦@UniofNewcastle⁩ - we are so lucky to have her as a member of @thewritingsquad Core Team!

No idea if you’re in Aarhus tomorrow but, if you happen to be, drop by at Godsbanen, Vogn 1 at 19.30 to listen to what this lot cooked up in Aalborg last April and over the last few days here, and if you can’t catch us then,we’ll be at @McrLitFest in October.

Always good to see an @thewritingsquad writer and erstwhile colleague’s work on a main stage - catch Billie Collins’s brilliant The Walrus has a Right to Adventure at Liverpool Everyman until June 21st.

Welcome back Mr Frog! Welcome to Squad 12! Our first Workshop with new Squad recruits was in Leeds today with Core Team member Emma Adams. In How to Find Your Focus we reminded ourselves to play, sketch, is watch, listen, start stuff then do something completely different!

Treasure arrives @thewritingsquad HQ

York today to induct members of Squad 12 - it was Durham Monday, Manchester last night, more in Manchester and online Sunday. Building as a verb not a noun.

Congratulations to Amy Luxton, who has won The Bridge Awards /Moniack Mhor 2025 Emerging Writer Award! This award provides focused development support for emerging writers of fiction 🏆 buff.ly/UtNJCDO

A joint statement from @YuanfenYang and me on the Israeli authorities' refusal to admit us entry to the occupied West Bank:

Have you ever seen so many Squad writers in the same place? Nor have we! Thanks to the brilliant ⁦@ProovePizza⁩ for hosting 40+ of us. Now for day two of our Open Weekend in Sheffield.

3 DAYS LEFT to apply to The Writing Squad! If you’re a 16-22 writer in the North of England & you’d benefit from free creative support, mentoring, workshops and opportunities, we want to hear from you! Applications close at midnight March 31. Head to joinsq.com 🚀

Next Wednesday, @rawolola hosts First Story’s Young Writers Festival at the University of Cambridge. Headlined by Steven Camden, the event welcomes schools for a day of creativity 🖍️ buff.ly/svHeTsO